{"id":9125,"date":"2019-05-22T16:15:12","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/spasticity\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:15:12","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:15:12","slug":"spasticity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/spasticity\/","title":{"rendered":"Spasticity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Increased resistance to muscle stretch, which is velocity-dependent, and may in part be due to peripheral changes in muscle stiffness. Resistance can suddenly diminish (the \u201aaaclasp-knife\u201aaa effect). &nbsp;Tendon reflexes are hyperactive and clonus may be present. &nbsp;Spasticity is classified according to its distribution across body parts or topographical location. The relationship of spasticity to disordered control of movement is not entirely clear.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"athetoid_-or_athetotiform-_movements\">Athetoid (or athetotiform) movements<\/a>, <a href=\"cerebral_palsy\">Cerebral palsy<\/a>, <a href=\"grasp_response\">Grasp response<\/a>, <a href=\"spastic_diplegia\">Spastic diplegia<\/a>, <a href=\"spastic_hemiplegia\">Spastic hemiplegia<\/a>, Spastic quadraplegia<\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Increased resistance to muscle stretch, which is velocity-dependent, and may in part be due to peripheral changes in muscle stiffness. Resistance can suddenly diminish (the \u201aaaclasp-knife\u201aaa effect). &nbsp;Tendon reflexes are hyperactive and clonus may be present. &nbsp;Spasticity is classified according to its distribution across body parts or topographical location. The relationship of spasticity to disordered &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/spasticity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Spasticity&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-9125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}